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RT 2014-07-11 17:20:00
The city council of Lvov in western Ukraine has urged the Nazi collaborators and nationalist icons, Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich, be reinstated as heroes of Ukraine. "We demand the president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, reissue a decree awarding Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich the title of heroes of Ukraine," says an address by Lvov's city council, as cited by Ukraine's UNIAN news agency. According to the MPs behind the claim, the move would confirm Poroshenko as "an independent president of the Ukrainian state, for which the head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), Stepan Bandera, and commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Roman Shukhevich, fought and gave their lives." Bandera and Shukhevich were awarded the title of heroes of Ukraine in 2007 and 2010 respectively, under President Viktor Yushchenko, who came to power in 2005 after the Orange Revolution. But the Nazi collaborators were deprived of the honors as soon as Viktor Yanukovych, who was mainly supported in the eastern regions of the country, came to power. In April 2010, Donetsk District Administrative Court declared Yushchenko's decrees to award Bandera and Shukhevich the titles of heroes of Ukraine illegal. There were several appeals to higher judiciaries against the Donetsk court ruling, but they were all turned down. | |
Comment: These people are utterly insane. It's disturbing, but the psychopathic mask of sanity seems to be dropping all over the place, like in Israel. See: Pre-army Israeli teens tweet: Death to all Arabs | |
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Noah Sneider New York Times 2014-07-10 16:45:00
Late one afternoon last month, as separatist militia fighters and Ukrainian forces exchanged fire, a small-time thief by the name of Aleksei B. Pichko left his home on the southern edge of Slovyansk and headed for an abandoned residence at 17 Sadovaya Street. He had been drinking, and wanted to "see what could be stolen from there," according to documents recovered at the rebel headquarters after their retreat over the weekend. Mr. Pichko, 30, never returned. An order signed and stamped by the rebels' powerful commander, Igor Strelkov, detailed Mr. Pichko's fate: death by firing squad for pilfering a pair of pants and two shirts. "They told me they took him to the S.B.U.," said his mother, Maria Pichko, referring to the headquarters in this former separatist stronghold. "I don't know anything more." The death sentence makes reference to a Stalin-era Soviet law, and in it Mr. Strelkov warns ominously that crimes "committed in the zone of military activity will continue to be punished ruthlessly and decisively." Mr. Strelkov, a native Muscovite whose real name is Igor Girkin, is a figure as mysterious as he is fearsome. On Thursday, he made his first public appearance after months of fighting, attending a news conference in the provincial capital of Donetsk alongside Alexander Borodai, another Russian citizen leading the uprising here. Having lost Slovyansk, Mr. Strelkov has moved to assert his authority over the fractious separatist militias that are gathering in Donetsk and Luhansk, the other major city in the rebellious east, rallying them for an urban war that would be both bloody and destructive - not to speak of suicidal, in the eyes of many analysts. | |
Comment: It's hard to tell what to think of Strelkov based on the above, but that's to be expected when reading a rag as biased as the New York Times. No mention, of course, on the things Strelkov has managed to do well:
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ITAR-TASS 2014-07-11 16:28:00
Kiev-controlled military units lost three in dead and 12 in wounded in fighting in eastern Ukraine over the past 24 hours, the press centre of the military operation reported on Friday. Seven soldiers were wounded, two severely, by mortar fire in the area of the village of Dyakovo in the Luhansk region. Militiamen of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic also opened mortar fire at the Ukrainian military's positions near the villages of Staraya Krasnyanka, the Luhansk region, and Marinovka, the Donetsk region. During the period of combat actions in the east, 173 Ukrainian servicemen have died, and 446 have been wounded, the press centre said. How it all began At the end of last year, Ukraine's then-President Viktor Yanukovych suspended the signing of an association agreement with the European Union to study the deal more thoroughly. His decision triggered anti-government protests that often turned violent and eventually led to a coup in February 2014. New people were brought to power in Kiev amid riots and ultranationalist rhetoric. Crimea refused to recognize the coup-imposed authorities, held a referendum and seceded from Ukraine to reunify with Russia in mid-March after some 60 years as part of Ukraine. | |
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ITAR-TASS 2014-07-10 16:22:00
The militia forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) have forced the Ukrainian army to retreat 10km from the Karlivka settlement to Galitsinovka village after continuous fighting on the approaches to Donetsk, the DPR press service told ITAR-TASS on Thursday. According to the press service, the Ukrainian troops have been trying to seize Karlivka from the militia units for more than a week. The residents of nearby villages could hear the cannonade the whole day on Thursday. The Ukrainian troops used heavy artillery guns against the militias. Ukraine's Interior Ministry said earlier on Thursday that the Ukrainian army, the National Guard and territorial defense battalions had launched an offensive near the Karlivka village, 30km away from Donetsk. According to the ministry, an offensive with the use of armored vehicles was underway in several sections of the front. | |
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Andrew Khouri Newswatch.us 2014-07-11 10:12:00
Retailers are rushing goods into the nation's ports, fearful labor strife may arrive on the docks and affect the busy holiday season, a trade group said. The powerful longshoremen's union is negotiating a new contract for its nearly 20,000 dockworkers at 29 West Coast ports. A breakdown in talks led to a 10-day lockout in 2002, shutting ports along the coast. Fearful of such disruptions, retailers "aren't taking any chances," according the monthly Global Port Tracker report, released by the National Retail Federation. Imports to large U.S. container ports will likely hit 1.5 million container units this month, the highest level in at least five years, the report said. Imports started surging this spring, as retailers looked to get goods in before the contract expired July 1. Importers have begun to shift cargo to East Coast ports as well, the group said. | |
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ITAR-TASS 2014-07-10 16:14:00
Laws do not work in Ukraine and the authorities are killing people instead of protecting them, Crimea's Prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya said on Thursday while visiting a refugee camp for Ukrainians in the village of Opushki near Crimea's capital Simferopol. Asked about a possibility of forced migrants to assert their rights in Ukraine, the prosecutor replied with emotion: "Look what is going on in Ukraine! What is the law there and who are the authorities protecting? A bunch of people who gathered together and dictate their conditions to the others and God knows what they are about?" "Which law regulates murder of ordinary citizens?" the CrimeaInform quoted Poklonskaya as saying. "Who has given them a right to murder? The law does not work in Ukraine, there is none there." "The people who came here and are now enjoying protection of Russian law and Russia testify to this fact," she said. | |
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Max Blumenthal Electronic Intifada 2014-07-08 00:00:00
"Cursed be he who says, 'Avenge!' " - Chaim Bialik, from "On The Slaughter" From the moment three Israeli teens were reported missing last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country's military-intelligence apparatus suppressed the flow of information to the general public. Through a toxic blend of propaganda, subterfuge and incitement, they inflamed a precarious situation, manipulating Israelis into supporting their agenda until they made an utterly avoidable nightmare inevitable. Israeli police, intelligence officials and Netanyahu knew within hours of the kidnapping and murder of the three teens that they had been killed. And they knew who the prime suspects were less than a day after the kidnapping was reported. Rather than reveal these details to the public, Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency imposed a gag order on the national media, barring news outlets from reporting that the teens had almost certainly been killed, and forbidding them from revealing the identities of their suspected killers. The Shin Bet even lied to the parents of the kidnapped teens, deceiving them into believing their sons were alive. | |
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Felicity Arbuthnot Global Research 2014-07-10 13:49:00
Yet another massive assault on Palestine is underway, where, of course, according to the Balfour Declaration, the Jewish population are guests not occupiers since: " ...the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of (this) it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine ..." (1.) Overnight (8th/9th July) however, one hundred and sixty targets were initially hit, including the European Gaza Hospital (a war crime without a war.) Twenty eight people were killed and over two hundred injured (2) added to the unending onslaught on Palestine from the day the Zionist cuckoo took over the Palestinian nest, homes, gardens, history, culture, ancient sites, cemeteries, villages, valleys, olive and apricot groves on 14th May 1948 (3) ignoring, jack booting and bulldozing entirely the "civil and religious rights" of the population, accompanied by subsequent decades of mass murder and demolitions. The current onslaught is apparently in response to the deaths of three youths from settler families, for whom no one has claimed responsibility and many questions remain (4.) However homes of two Palestinian "suspects" were arbitrarily destroyed by the Israeli military with no arrests, trial, recourse to law for the dispossessed victims of any kind. Subsequently in an apparent revenge killing, Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khudair (16) was kidnapped and murdered, his body doused in gasoline, which was also reportedly poured down his throat before setting him alight (5.) Muhammad's cousin Tariq Khudair (15) visiting from Florida was apprehended and beaten so badly by the Israeli police that he reportedly: "woke up in hospital." (6)
The all led to rockets being fired in to Israel, though no injuries have been reported. Israel responded by targeting Gaza (Palestine of course, has no meaningful defence forces) with: "four hundred tonnes of bombs and missiles" with "four hundred and forty targets being hit" and with: "The battle against Hamas (to) intensify over the coming days; it will exact a huge price." (7) The tiny Gaza Strip is just forty one kilometers long and between six and twelve miles wide and home to 1,816,379 people (2014 figure.) Israel is clearly planning another "turkey shoot" reminiscent of General Norman Schwartzkopf's infamous boast of his aerial slaughter on the Basra Road, of those seeking safety, with no where to hide, in the first Gulf war. | ||
Comment: Psychopathic Israel has truly lost touch with reality, expecting the world to rally to its side for the death of three of its children (most likely sacrificed by Israel itself). Her crimes are just too blatant and too long-standing. | ||
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RT 2014-07-11 14:17:00
In the latest case of Western mainstream media confusing the geographical location of warzones, an ABC News anchor described footage of Gaza homes shortly after their destruction by the IDF as belonging to Israel. On July 8, veteran ABC news anchor Diane Sawyer, 68, opened up a news segment, entitled Under Attack, with the following introduction: "We take you overseas now to the rockets raining down on Israel today, as Israel tried to shoot them out of the sky, all part of the tinderbox, Israelis and Palestinians [sic]." In two images that accompanied Sawyer's narration, she says, "Here are two Israelis trying to salvage what they can, while a woman is standing speechless among the ruins."
There was just one problem: The images of wide-scale physical destruction and human suffering shown in the images were not from Israel, but rather from the Gaza Strip, where the locals have been enduring days of aerial bombings. | ||
Comment: Western media is purely a zionist propaganda organ. Goebbels would be envious at how the Western media again and again get away with blatant propaganda and without any consequences when it is exposed as propaganda. See also: | ||
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Antony Lowenstein The Guardian 2014-07-11 14:18:00
William Binney is one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA. He was a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War but resigned soon after September 11, disgusted by Washington's move towards mass surveillance. On 5 July he spoke at a conference in London organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and revealed the extent of the surveillance programs unleashed by the Bush and Obama administrations. "At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the US", Binney said. "This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores." The NSA will soon be able to collect 966 exabytes a year, the total of internet traffic annually. Former Google head Eric Schmidt once argued that the entire amount of knowledge from the beginning of humankind until 2003 amount to only five exabytes. Binney, who featured in a 2012 short film by Oscar-nominated US film-maker Laura Poitras, described a future where surveillance is ubiquitous and government intrusion unlimited. "The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control", Binney said, "but I'm a little optimistic with some recent Supreme Court decisions, such as law enforcement mostly now needing a warrant before searching a smartphone." | |
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RT 2014-07-11 13:59:00
Dozens of Ukraine's government troops have been reportedly killed after local militia shelled pro-Kiev military forces with Grad rocket launchers. President Poroshenko has vowed "killing hundreds" for each deceased soldier. Self-defense troops attacked a Ukrainian military unit at around 5:00am near Zelenopolye village in the Lugansk region, not far from the Russian border, Kiev's officials reported. A military official described the consequences of what he called "a bloody terrorist act" as"destruction" saying that about 30 were feared killed. "About 30 servicemen are thought to have been killed in a shelling by militants using Grad multiple rocket launchers at units of the Ukrainian anti-terrorist operation (ATO) forces near the village of Zelenopolye," Zoryan Shkyryak, an adviser to Interior Minister Arseny Avakov, said at a briefing. "There might be more victims." | |
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RT 2014-07-11 13:45:00
Russia has written down $32 billion of Cuba's Soviet era debt. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law ahead of his official visit to Latin America, with Havana as his first stop. The agreement was first signed in October 2013 and draws a line under a twenty-year dispute. Cuba is now required to pay back $3.2 billion over the next 10 years. The first payment from Cuba is expected in October, and the money will be transferred to an account of the Russian lender Vnesheconombank opened at the National Bank of Cuba. The agreement was signed into a law on Friday ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin's official visit to Latin America, where Cuba comes the first. Cash-strapped Cuba has been feverishly trying to restructure its debt to jump start its economy and attract investment. Three years ago it restructured $6 billion it owes to China, and in 2012 Japan forgave about $1.4 billion. Mexico recently forgave $478 million of Cuban debt, and Havana agreed to pay back $146 million over 10 years. Cuba's total debt was officially estimated at $13.6 billion in 2012 which is described as"active". Other debt collected prior to its default in 1980s is referred to as "passive". Cuba remains a strong ally of Russia, with trade between the two countries at about $200 million last year. After the Soviet Union broke up Russia became the legal successor to Cuba's loans. Cuba in turn rejected this, saying that the debt was in a currency that no longer existed, and was to a country that had vanished.
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Tim Mak These are the men and women who are supposed to keep watch over the nation's spies. And they have no idea about the latest revelations of inappropriate NSA snooping.The Daily Beast 2014-07-07 00:00:00
The newest revelations about the National Security Agency may be shocking to the rest of us. To the congressional overseers of the American intelligence services, not so much. They're still catching up from a holiday weekend. Or maybe they've just become numb to the whole spying-on-ordinary-people thing. Using files provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, The Washington Postreported over the weekend that the NSA scooped up the communications of innocent Internet users, including Americans, and that those not targeted by the agency far outnumber those targeted by the agency. Personal and intimate information - details on romantic relationships, résumés, pictures - for thousands of non-targeted individuals have all been caught in the NSA's surveillance driftnet, according to the newspaper. All of that, you might think, would be a matter of some interest to the senators who control the budgets and oversee the activities of the nation's military and intelligence agencies. Or not. Sen. Lindsey Graham - who sits on the Senate's armed services, appropriations, and judiciary committees and is one of the Republican Party's most prominent voices on defense and intelligence issues - wasn't familiar with the Post piece. | |
Comment: The definition of clueless: having no knowledge, understanding or ability. | |
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Timothy Alexander Guzman Silent Crow News 2014-01-01 15:37:00
The state of Israel is ready for another war in Gaza following incidents in the Israeli-Gaza borders where it claims that numerous rockets were fired from the Gaza by terrorists groups according to the Times of Israel. "Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz on Tuesday expressed their satisfaction with the IDF's preparedness for a possible incursion into the Gaza Strip and declared that such an attack would severely incapacitate terror groups" according to the report. The report also indicated that "their statements came amid a recent spike in the number of attacks emanating from Gaza and, subsequently, the number and intensity of Israeli retaliatory strikes." The Israeli government is in preparation to hit the Palestinians to disable their military capabilities to attack the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in case of any future war with the Palestinians or any of its neighbors in the Middle East. It would also limit the Palestinians fighting capabilities if Israel were to launch attacks on its neighbors as in the case of Lebanon, Syria or Iran. Both Israel and Lebanon have a strenuous relationship for decades. Israel will launch strikes deep into Gaza if new peace talks fail when US Secretary of State John Kerry who is scheduled to arrive this week. Israel recently complained to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the Security Council that Lebanon committed acts of terror, including the murder of an IDF soldier by a Lebanese soldier. | |
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Tyler Durden A few days ago we finally closed the door on any argument who the marginal buyer in the US luxury housing segment was - the answer: Chinese oligarchs, scrambling to launder their "hot" domestic money abroad (as we predicted first two years ago) and now that Switzerland is no longer a safe offshore venue where one can park cash, they picked US luxury housing as the best money laundering alternative.Zerohedge.com 2014-07-10 23:50:00
This means that far from indicating a recovery, as the recent surge in the high end of the US housing segment had long been touted, all the relentless move higher in ultraluxury properties prices was simply a recycling of China's hot money, which unlike in the US, never made its way into the Chinese stock market (explaining why the Shanghai Composite has barely budged in years) and merely ended up in US real estate. If anything, this is simply another confirmation of the epic capital misallocation, and the complete lack of "trickle down" resulting from failed global central banking policies. So now that the "who" has been answered, just one question remained: "how?" | |
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RT 2014-07-10 17:30:00
Nine young Palestinians were killed and 15 others injured in an overnight Israeli air raid on a Gaza Strip beach while watching the World Cup semifinal game between the Netherlands and Argentina. The victims were sitting in a beach café in Khan Yunis when the Israeli F-16 fighter jet struck it. None of those killed had been warned, according to Gulf News sources. However, this information could not be independently verified. After the strike, there was nothing left of the popular seaside café. "It was a normal social occasion," a local policeman employed by the Palestinian Authority, Wael Soboh, told AFP. "The boys ate their Ramadan iftar meal here, and then began watching the match. It is not a military area."
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Sarah Lazare 'The issue of whether water should be a commodity or part of the commons raises the question of what kind of future we want.'Common Dreams 2014-07-10 13:06:00
Detroit residents on Thursday launched a direct action to halt the city's mass shut-off of water to thousands of households, physically blocking a private corporation from turning off the tap. Carrying a banner that read "Stop the Water Shut-offs," ten city residents nonviolently obstructed the entrance to Homrich Inc. - the private company that was handed a $5.6 million deal from the city to shut off water services to residences that are behind on their bills, according to the protest organizers. They were surrounded during the civil disobedience by a crowd of over 40 supporters chanting "If the water don't flow, the trucks don't go." | |
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Yvonne Ridley Yvonne Ridley.com 2014-07-11 15:53:00
Posh lad George Osborne headed north of the Border this week to tell the Scots how lucky they are to be ruled by Westminster. That's a bit like sending a Sunderland supporter into my native Newcastle to give a lecture in the hallowed grounds of St James' Park about the finer points of the beautiful game! Few on the south side like or trust the Chancellor of the Exchequer so I would question the motives of those who dispatched him to the North in the expectation he would receive a rousing welcome. It's already well known that there are more pandas in Scotland than Conservative MPs and now that the female in Edinburgh Zoo continues to show positive signs she's pregnant it looks as though the only endangered species here are the Tories. I say 'here' because this is where I made my home a couple of years ago, and as a member of the Geordie Tribe I reckon we're close enough to hold a valid opinion on independence. In fact I'm quite sure, following the ruthless Tory-inspired destruction of the North East's shipyards, coal and steel industries that if the vote for independence was extended 100 miles south it would be seized upon enthusiastically with both hands. The boss class in the south has never done any favors to northerners and I expect most Scots feel exactly the same but at least they have a chance to do something about it now. I can't believe anyone was taken in by the nonsense which came tumbling out of Osborne's mouth when he said Scots would be £2,000 better off if they voted 'no' in next year's referendum. Like all of the figures coming out of Westminster they need to be scrutinized very closely. My man with the abacus says the sum of £2,000 is per household and would not be realized for a full 30 years; in other words Osborne is promising Scots the square root of nowt. | |
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Gideon Levy Uprooted Palestinians 2014-06-30 14:58:00
What a cruel world: Three yeshiva students were kidnapped, and the world isn't interested; three mothers are crying out, and the world doesn't answer. It's all because the entire world is against us; it's anti-Semitic and hates Israel. The Anti-Defamation League is already preparing a report. But the truth is, that's just the way things are: When you openly thumb your nose at the world for years on end, eventually, it thumbs its nose back. The three mothers went all the way to Geneva. One of them went abroad for the first time in her life to go to the United Nations Human Rights Council. But the world, and the council, went on their merry ways. It's the irony of fate: About two years ago, Israel officially suspended cooperation with that council; together with the Marshall Islands, Palau and the U.S., it opposed the council's very establishment. But now, in its distress and the mothers' distress, it has turned to the council, which is indeed hostile to Israel and spends more time on it than on any other country. Suddenly, Israel needs the world.It even needs the UN, which all of a sudden isn't the worthless body Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion once termed it. It takes considerable effrontery to demand that the world interests itself in the fate of three abducted Israelis, and considerable chutzpah to be disappointed by the fact that it has kept silent. Granted, Israel tried to move heaven and earth, and its ambassador/propagandist at the UN gave a moving speech in an effort to scrape up a few more public diplomacy points against Hamas. But once it was paying attention already, that bizarre world was more interested in the campaign of collective punishment imposed on thousands of West Bank residents after the kidnapping. That's the way things are with the world-that's-entirely-against- That's what rotten fruit looks like. The world has no reason be more interested in the fate of Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrah and Gilad Shaar than it is in the fate of their age mate Mohammed Dudin, a boy of 15 who was killed by live fire from Israeli soldiers in Dura last Friday. It has no reason to be especially moved by the haunting words of Rachel Fraenkel, who related that her Naftali is a good boy who loves to play guitar and soccer, when Mohammed was also a good boy, who helped his father build their house during his school vacations and sold sweets to help support his family. Rachel wants to hug Naftali? Jihad, Mohammed's bereaved father, also wants to hug his son. Incidentally, nobody brought him to Geneva. He remained alone with his mourning, at the wretched house whose construction hasn't yet been finished, and perhaps never will be. The world is a mess, as they say. In Iraq, Nigeria, Syria and even Ukraine, the situation is far crueler. Yet the complete lack of interest in the kidnapped Israelis doesn't stem from that alone. It's impossible to demand sympathy from the world when Israel ignores the world's decisions; it's impossible to demand action when Israel is perpetuating the occupation; and it's impossible to demand solidarity with the fate of Israeli victims when that same victimized Israel continues to kill, wound and arrest innocents as a matter of routine. Now Israel is discovering that it's no longer the center of attention as it always was before, and that the fate of its kidnapping victims no longer stops the world in its tracks, not even in the United States. The world is sick of Israel and its insanities. Unfortunately, the world has also lost interest in what happens here. When Israel was a more just country, the world identified with its victims. It continued to do so even when Israel became less just. But now, when Israeli rejectionism is hitting new heights and its oppression of the Palestinians is returning to what it was during the very worst periods, the world has started getting tired of it all. Even the kidnapped Nigerian girls interest it more. | |
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Michelle Moons Breitbart.com 2014-07-09 00:00:00
As the border crisis continues, the Department of Defense is requesting that additional military bases make housing facilities and land available to accommodate a continued influx of illegal alien children. According to information provided exclusively to Breitbart through a source requesting anonymity, Major General John T. Winters has specifically requested installation support for the Department of Homeland Security to provide temporary housing to unaccompanied alien children. The request requires bases to report any facilities across the U.S. that meet the following minimum specifications: a 24,000 square foot building, 15 acres of land "level and clear," and access to utilities. The information is due to be reported by Wednesday afternoon, July 9. When contacted by Breitbart News, Defense Department spokesman Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas Crosson confirmed the new military requests. Asked precisely how many bases are needed, Lt. Col. Crosson responded:"however many is needed to provide HHS with the mutually agreed upon amount of bed space." Currently, three facilities are being used: Naval Base Ventura County, in Port Hueneme, California; Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, in Texas; and Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The California base can house 575, and is accommodating teenagers from the ages of 13 to 17. Lackland and Sill can each hold about 1,200 youth. As the border crisis continues, the Department of Defense is requesting that additional military bases make housing facilities and land available to accommodate a continued influx of illegal alien children. According to information provided exclusively to Breitbart through a source requesting anonymity, Major General John T. Winters has specifically requested installation support for the Department of Homeland Security to provide temporary housing to unaccompanied alien children. The request requires bases to report any facilities across the U.S. that meet the following minimum specifications: a 24,000 square foot building, 15 acres of land "level and clear," and access to utilities. The information is due to be reported by Wednesday afternoon, July 9. | |
Comment: The DHS has been restricting information and access to the temporary housing facilities to both the media and members of Congress. One wonders just what they are attempting to hide if there was any real concern for these children. As the private for-profit prison system has been enriched by the influx of immigrants, it appears that the military wants some of the funding for itself. Whether any of these children will indeed benefit from this is doubtful. The elite psychopaths always use a crisis for their own benefit. Missing the point: Why is Obama encouraging illegal immigration when we can't care for millions of our own citizens? Private US prisons are getting rich by abusing illegal immigrants On illegal immigration, more U.S. cities are rolling out a welcome mat | |
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The Independent 2014-07-09 00:00:00
A dramatic surge in numbers of sex attackers being jailed - many for historic child abuse cases - has helped to drive the prison population to a record high, the Justice Secretary said yesterday. Chris Grayling suggested that sex offenders including paedophiles accounted for almost half of the increase in people in jail over the last year. Police and charities have said more victims are coming forward to report sex offences following the exposure of the abuse committed by Jimmy Savile and other high profile figures. Mr Grayling said the trend had been reflected in English and Welsh prisons, whose population has jumped by about 1,600 in the last year. He told the Commons justice select committee that 700 of the increase was accounted for by sex offenders. He explained that there was a range of factors for the rising numbers behind bars, but added: "The most obvious change is there's been quite a big increase in the number of sex offenders coming into our prisons, many of them historic sex abuse cases. | |
Comment: Another attempt by the elites to appease the masses over the peadophile scandal by drawing attention to sex offender arrests, while completely ignoring the fact that the elite offenders are not being brought to trial. In fact, every attempt is being made to once again sweep the scandal under the rug. Fortunately the furor that has been ignited may be impossible to hide this time. Gatekeepers attempt to erase pedophilia: BBC and gov't operatives still hoping to stop hemorrhaging of public confidence UK MP calls for public inquiry into child sex abuse: 'If MPs are discovered to be harboring pedophiles, damage to British democracy will be fatal' Leading British opposition party politicians under investigation for channeling public funds to elite pedophile network | |
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Dean Henderson Left Hook 2014-07-07 00:00:00
(Excerpted from Chapter 6: Mercenary Shopping: Stickin' it to the Matrix) Shopping for frivolous and unnecessary items consumes way too much of most people's time and budget, while chaining the new owner of this junk to a cluttered garage, a storage unit and general sedentary misery. Still there are certain tools and entertainments we wish to procure and there are many good ways to get them other than at a store. Again it is all about attitude. You must develop a resistance to shopping. It should be viewed as morally reprehensible. When you need to attain an item, do your research and find out where to get it at the best price, preferably - except, I would argue, in the case of electronics - used. Remember, the system has declared war on your family. Don't shop much. And fight like a mercenary of the revolutionary army when you must shop. Barter is an ancient and excellent system which should be taken up across the land.Here, the palpable stench of their bloody fiat currency is absent. When we lived on that 20 acre place near Peace Valley, we always had a bumper strawberry crop. Everyone likes strawberries, so we traded our excess for pasture-raised poultry, eggs and honey. We also did a community-supported agriculture swap with a local dentist, whereby we exchanged a weekly run of in-season fresh vegetables from our garden for a good amount of dental work. Most people have been trained to be timid when it comes to asking a "professional" to barter their service for your goods/services. In doing so, you are undervaluing your own efforts. It doesn't hurt to ask. Remember, be audacious. | |
Comment: With the upcoming horizon of harder times ahead, this article puts a positive spin on alternate ways of "shopping" for the goods you need without "feeding the beast!" As consumers, we may not have control over big business or the gluttony of our nation, but we CAN learn to control our purchasing urges and/or find creative ways outside the system to obtain our necessities. Happy hunting! | |
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Sara Carter The Blaze 2014-07-09 10:17:00
Department of Homeland Security officials are stonewalling lawmakers who try to make unannounced visits to immigrant detention facilities throughout the country and are closing off public roads along the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to keep journalists from reporting on the growing illegal immigration crisis, federal law enforcement officials told TheBlaze. The officials said senior supervisors have made scheduling visits ahead of time mandatory at detention facilities, turned back officials from unannounced visits, and that Border Patrol agents have been forced to clean up facilities and transfer illegal aliens from unauthorized holding cells before they are inspected by lawmakers.Reporters have also been stopped by DHS officials from traveling along public access roads near the Rio Grande, where most of illegal immigrant children and groups are crossing into the U.S. The media crackdown along the Rio Grande happened shortly after TheBlaze visited the region last month and traveled along some of the more secluded roads along the river's edge. TheBlaze witnessed dozens of illegal immigrants turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents after making the crossing into the United States and interviewed many of them before they were taken away. | |
Comment: Perhaps what the DHS does not want too many people to realize is that the intent is to keep these people imprisoned in the for-profit prison system as long as possible. The pathocrats in charge have no interest in helping the illegals - they cannot even help the millions of US citizens who are in poverty - nor do they care. Missing the point: Why is Obama encouraging illegal immigration when we can't care for millions of our own citizens? Private US prisons are getting rich by abusing illegal immigrants On illegal immigration, more U.S. cities are rolling out a welcome mat | |
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David Sheen On Thursday, July 10, I entered the Hebrew word for "Arabs", ARAVIM, into Twitter and searched for uses of the word over the previous few hours. What I found was young Israelis proclaiming their desire for all Arabs to die and in some cases be tortured to death.Storify.com 2014-07-10 10:52:00
Some of these calls for genocide were from young men, but a majority of them seemed to be authored by young women. I began to tweet out translations into English of their words, including their Twitter profile pictures and links to their original tweets.
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MyfoxNY.com 2014-07-10 06:57:00
Two sets of body parts have been found in two days on Long Island. In the most recent incident, a man found a severed arm on his front lawn on Webb Ave. in Hempstead on Wednesday at about 2 p.m. The home owner, speaking for his brother-in-law who spotted the arm, said he smelled a foul odor earlier in the day but thought it was garbage. "When he saw the arm ... he almost passed out," said Jose Diaz. The arm appeared to belong to a female and was severed from the shoulder, said police. | |
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RT 2014-07-11 07:21:00
An Australian judge has incurred the wrath of child protection and gay rights advocates after stating that incest and pedophilia may no longer be considered taboo - just as gay relationships are now more accepted than they were in the 1950s and 60s. District Court Judge Garry Neilson was recorded as saying that sexual contact between adults and children or siblings may no longer be regarded by society as "unnatural" or"taboo." Just as same-sex relationships were once considered socially unacceptable, "a jury might find nothing untoward in the advance of a brother towards his sister once she had sexually matured, had sexual relationships with other men and was now 'available,' not having [a] sexual partner," he said, as quoted by Australia's Fairfax Media. Neilson said that the primary reason for incest still being a crime is the high risk of genetic abnormalities in any children born as a result of the relationships. "But even that falls away to an extent [because] there is such ease of contraception and ready access to abortion," he said. | |
Comment: A sick puppy, whose views are sadly common among the global elite. | |
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Peter Beinart The centennial of World War I is a chance to remember naive predictions about how it and other fights would improve society - and the awful abuses those wars actually enabled.The Atlantic 2014-07-06 05:00:00
The impending anniversary of the start of World War I has given historians and pundits the chance to speculate about whether we're heading for another era of mass war and redrawing of borders. Put me down as undecided. But as we prepare to dwell on the ghastliness that occurred overseas between 1914 and 1918, it's worth pausing to reflect on the ghastliness that occurred over here. On June 30, 1918, perennial Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs was sentenced to 10 years in jail for opposing the draft. (In 1920, he won nearly a million votes while in prison; he was freed in 1921.) During the war, Cincinnati outlawed the sale of pretzels; Iowa made publicly speaking German a crime. On August 1, 1917 in Butte, Montana, a mob seized Frank Little, who was trying to unionize copper miners for the anti-war Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). In Over Here, his wonderful book about America's wartime home front, the historian David Kennedy recounts what happened next. "Pummeled into the street, Little was tied to the rear of an automobile and dragged through the streets until his kneecaps were scraped off, then hanged from the side of a railroad trestle." While calling the lynching regrettable, the New York Times insisted that, "the IWW agitators are in effect, and perhaps in fact, agents of Germany." | |
Comment: If the results of war were so great for the home society, why is it that the "proposed benefits," as stated by these idiots, are so illusive? Because there are none? Instead, the wool of war is once again pulled over the public's eye and another manipulation for power and conquest takes place with few the wiser. War, a deceptive balance of "fear and protection," is the ultimate distraction for an inside power grab of rights and freedoms. Unfortunately, the grandest scheme is the one that takes place at home, the hardest to spot and the most difficult to reverse. | |
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ABC 15 2014-07-10 12:54:00
Detroit, Michigan - Charlie Bothuell, the Detroit boy who went missing for 11 days and was found in his father's basement, details alleged abuse in a new petition filed with the juvenile court this week. The petition says Charlie told investigators that he was forced to do a rigorous exercise routine including, 5000 revolutions on the elliptical trainer, 100 push-ups, 200 sit-ups, 100 jumping jacks, 25 arm curls on each arm with a 25 lb. weight. He told investigators he had to complete the entire workout in under an hour or "he'd have to do the entire workout again." Charlie also told investigators about his stepmother, Monique Dillard-Bothuell, who he said hated him. In the interview he stated that his stepmother said "she doesn't f'ing like me, and will f'ing murder me." She also said "I can make you disappear." He told investigators that it was his stepmother who put him in the basement, the report says. It also says that Charlie's dad, Charlie Botuell abused the boy for two years, beating him with a PVC pipe that left the boy too sore to sit or walk, and splitting open his skin. When Charlie was found by FBI and police he stated "I was so excited when I heard they were going to move the box I was behind, because I knew they were going to find me." The child's father, Charlie Bothuell IV and his stepmother Monique Dillard-Bothuell were in court this morning at a hearing in which the Department of Human Services has asked the court to terminate their parental rights for their two younger children, ages four-years old and 11 months. DHS is also seeking to have little Charlie's father's parental rights terminated with regard to his 12-year old son. Scripps sister station 7 Action News asked them to respond to the abuse allegations and they would not comment. The children are now living with grandparents, but their mom and dad are allowed supervised visits. | |
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Jerome R. Corsi WND 2014-07-07 19:28:00
Bestseller disappearing as companion movie hits theaters The wholesale giant Costco has issued an order to remove all copies of Dinesh D'Souza's bestselling book, America: Imagine the World Without Her, from the shelves of its stores nationwide, WND has confirmed. The book, in this midterm election year, is a strong rebuttal of the progressive ideology behind President Obama's policies, which have been supported by Costco co-founder and director Jim Sinegal, a major Democrat donor and a speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Convention that nominated the president. A Washington Post political reporter has noted Obama's "romance" with the nation's second-largest retailer. At Amazon.com, D'Souza's book, released June 2, is ranked No. 5 overall and No. 1 in Political Commentary and Opinion.
Costco has sold more than 3,600 copies of America nationwide, with about 700 copies sold last week as D'Souza's film by the same name opened at more than 1,000 movie theaters nationwide. But Costco's book department issued the "pull order," requiring all Costco stores nationwide to remove the book, confirmed Scott Losse, an inventory control specialist in the book department at the Costco Wholesale corporate office in Issaquah, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. The July 1 order required all copies to be removed by July 15. Contacted for a reaction, D'Souza was surprised to learn of the Costco decision. "If true, this would be very odd," D'Souza said. | ||
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KHOU 2014-07-10 19:37:00
Deputy constables say Ronald Lee Haskell, 33, has been charged with one count of capital murder (multi) in connection with the shooting of seven people, including children, at a home in Spring. Haskell was transferred to a county jail overnight as the Harris County Precinct 4 Deputy Constable's Office released new information. The shootings happened a little after 5 p.m. Wednesday at a home in the 700 block of Leaflet in the Enchanted Oaks subdivision. "He came to this location yesterday afternoon - late - and came under the guise of a FedEx driver wearing a FedEx shirt," said Constable Ron Hickman. Detectives said Haskell knocked on the front door of the home and when the 15-year-old girl answered he asked for her parents. She told him they were not home and so he left. | |
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| Secret History |
Jonathan O'Callaghan Daily Mail, UK 2014-07-11 12:31:00
* Researchers in Poland have found a prehistoric meteorite in a hut * The 9,000 year-old object was believed to belong to a stone-age shaman * Found along with other objects associated with magic such as an amulet * The small meteorite was shaped into a cylindrical and porous object * And the researchers suggest the humans knew it fell from space Archaeologists have found a meteorite fragment in a shaman's hut dating back 9,000 years that seems to have been worshipped as a magical object. The talisman was found alongside other objects that were considered sacred at the time including an amulet and a stick made of antler. It's thought it gained this status because the prehistoric stone age humans saw it fall from space, suggesting they may have known it came from another world. | |
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Azeen Ghorayshi New Scientist 2014-07-11 12:04:00
Food could be a new weapon in shaking off the effects of jet lag after research in mice showed that the insulin released as a result of eating can be a key factor in restoring a disrupted body clock. Miho Sato and her colleagues at The Research Institute for Time Studies at Yamaguchi University in Japan did experiments in mice and tissue cultures to show, for the first time, that increases in insulin affect circadian rhythms. These daily rhythms affect alertness, sleep patterns, and mediate many other physiological processes. Your biological clock is regulated by two broad factors: first, the central rhythm is reset daily by light, as sensory input from the eyes is processed by a small part of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus. The rise and fall of hormones linked to sleep, for example, match this rhythm. But circadian rhythms are also present in peripheral "clocks" in a wide range of cell types in the body. Some of these can be influenced by food. Sato demonstrated the role of insulin by shifting the peripheral body clock in the livers of mice by feeding them only at night. They then split the mice into two groups, supressed insulin levels in one group, and returned all the mice to daytime feeding. Four days later, the livers of the non-supressed mice had readjusted to a normal daily rhythm, as revealed by the daily rise and fall of liver-gene expression. The livers of the insulin-suppressed mice had still not returned to normal. | |
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RT 2014-07-10 20:26:00
Scientists now believe that a tremendous amount of light that would otherwise be illuminating our universe is mysteriously absent. How much light exactly? According to new research conducted by a team of international scientists and funded in part by NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Ahmanson Foundation, around 80 percent of the universe's light is nowhere to be found. "It's as if you're in a big, brightly lit room, but you look around and see only a few 40-watt lightbulbs," astronomer Juna Kollmeier - a Carnegie Institution for Science professor and the lead author of the new study on missing light said in a statement this week. "Where is all that light coming from? It's missing from our census." Kollmeier and company have published their research in the latest edition of The Astrophysical Journal Letters, and there they explain further why they have reason to believe that the universe is missing around 400 percent of its light. | |
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Emily Payne The Daily Mail, UK 2014-07-09 12:55:00
At the Hospital de Egas Moniz in Lisbon, Portugal, the unnamed woman, a U.S. citizen, had tissue from her nose implanted in her spine. Doctors hoped the cells would develop into neural cells and help repair the nerve damage to the woman's spine. But the treatment failed. However, last year, eight years after the stem cell operation, the woman, then 28, complained of increasing pain in the area. Doctors discovered a three-centimetre-long growth, which was found to be mainly nasal tissue, as well as bits of bone and nerve branches that had not connected with the spinal nerves. | |
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Emma Weissmann National Geographic 2014-07-09 12:54:00
The aptly named mousear cress may respond to caterpillar munching sounds. Plants have long been known to react to changes in their environment, and may respond to light, temperature, and touch. But are they listening too? For the Arabidopsis plant, the answer is a loud and clear "yes." The distinct, high-amplitude vibrations produced by a cabbage butterfly caterpillar munching on a leaf of this flowering mustard plant, commonly called mousear cress, throws its defenses into high gear, according to a study published in Oecologia this month by two researchers at the University of Missouri. The study, which combined audio and chemical analysis, is the first to find evidence that plants respond to an ecologically relevant sound in the environment, said Heidi Appel, a senior research scientist in the Division of Plant Sciences at Missouri. | |
Comment: Slowly but surely scientists in all fields are realizing that ALL is information! | |
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Blaine Friedlander Cornell Chronicle 2014-07-11 00:22:00
The Arecibo Observatory has captured one of the most fleeting, mysterious and rare deep-space events - a so-called "fast radio burst" (FRB) that lasted a mere three one-thousandths of a second. Cornell, McGill University and other astronomers report this peculiar event today (July 10) in the Astrophysical Journal. Until now, the Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, had discovered all five previously known FRBs. This breakneck burst was found Nov. 2, 2012, and not formally reported until this paper, as astronomers needed to verify its authenticity and to rule out cosmic noise. "It was a single pulse - additional observations of the same direction on the sky have shown nothing," said James Cordes, Cornell professor of astronomy and an author on the paper. "The nature of these bursts had been in doubt until recently, and the discovery at Arecibo cements the case that they are astrophysical, rather than some unique form of radio interference at Parkes." | |
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Fred Barbash Washington Post 2014-07-10 20:12:00
Every now and then a scholarly journal retracts an article because of errors or outright fraud. In academic circles, and sometimes beyond, each retraction is a big deal. Now comes word of a journal retracting 60 articles at once. The reason for the mass retraction is mind-blowing: A "peer review and citation ring" was apparently rigging the review process to get articles published. You've heard of prostitution rings, gambling rings and extortion rings. Now there's a "peer review ring." The publication is the Journal of Vibration and Control (JVC). It publishes papers with names like "Hydraulic engine mounts: a survey" and "Reduction of wheel force variations with magnetorheological devices." The field of acoustics covered by the journal is highly technical: Analytical, computational and experimental studies of vibration phenomena and their control. The scope encompasses all linear and nonlinear vibration phenomena and covers topics such as: vibration and control of structures and machinery, signal analysis, aeroelasticity, neural networks, structural control and acoustics, noise and noise control, waves in solids and fluids and shock waves.JVC is part of the SAGE group of academic publications. | |
Comment: Nothing out of the ordinary about Chen. Most scientists only care about getting published; they could care less whether their papers are actually legit or not. Peer review is a joke, a good idea on the surface, but which is easily and often abused. | |
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| Earth Changes |
Tyler Durden Zerohedge.com 2014-07-11 15:26:00
Fast forward to 1 minutes 6 seconds into the clip (equivalent to 4:22am local time, and where every second is equvalent to 6 seconds in real-time) to see what the 6.8 magnitude earthquake, which we reported earlier, was all about. Luckily, this time, it was nothing to write home about. Let's hope it stays that way for all future earthquakes as well, or otherwise Abe will have much bigger problems on his hands than just a flaccid "third arrow."
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Ioanna Zikakou - Greek Reporter 2014-07-11 15:06:00
An earthquake of 4.3 magnitude on the Richter scale rattled Central Greece, today, July 11 at 12:46 pm. The areas where the earthquake was mostly felt were Chalkida and Eretria, while Athenians also felt its impact. According to the Institute of Geodynamics the epicenter of the earthquake was in the city ofChalkida, Euboea, 54 kilometers north of Athens. The focal depth of the quake was detected at five kilometers. Historically, earthquakes have caused widespread damage across central and southern Greece, the islands of the Ionian Sea, Crete, Cyprus, Sicily and other neighboring regions. In January, a series of strong earthquakes on the western island of Kefalonia damaged hundreds of homes and injured more than a dozen people. | |
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ITV The biggest earthquake in Jersey and Guernsey on the Channel Islands for almost 90 years has struck, with a magnitude of 4.2.2014-07-11 15:00:00 Rumbles of sounds were heard as windows rattled when the quake struck at a depth of seven miles around 12 miles west of St Helier at 12.54pm.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) said it was the largest earthquake to have hit the region since a 5.6-magnitude quake on February 17, 1927.A spokesman for the BGS said it was also felt weakly on the South Coast of England, but only caused "very minor" damage. One local thought a plane had crashed nearby, while another reported that the impact was enough to make them jump and go outside. | |
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U.S. Geological Survey 2014-07-11 14:41:00
Event Time 2014-07-11 19:22:00 UTC 2014-07-12 04:22:00 UTC+09:00 at epicenter Location 37.069°N 142.364°E depth=13.3km (8.2mi) Nearby Cities 129km (80mi) ESE of Namie, Japan 131km (81mi) E of Iwaki, Japan 147km (91mi) ENE of Kitaibaraki, Japan 151km (94mi) ENE of Takahagi, Japan 284km (176mi) ENE of Tokyo, Japan Scientific data | |
Comment: This is getting uncomfortably close to Fukushima! Namie lies in Fukushima prefecture. | |
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Matt McNab The Island Packet 2014-07-10 13:00:00
A 15-foot-long pilot whale beached itself Thursday morning on Hilton Head Island and died, causing a stir for beachgoers, some of whom tried unsuccessfully to save the mammal. A necropsy performed on the whale, found near the heel of the island at Port Royal Plantation, did not reveal a cause of death. More tests to check for viruses or other conditions that led to the 700-pound mammal's stranding will be completed in coming weeks, said Jessica Conway, a marine mammal technician with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. It was the first pilot whale to be stranded on Beaufort County shores since 2012, when one was found on Hunting Island. The whale on Hilton Head was found near marker 118 at about 6 a.m. by a beachgoer who notified the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office. A group of about eight people tried to push the dying whale back into the water, according to an email to The Island Packet from an onlooker. The whale had been thrashing in the surf, but was dead by 7:30 a.m. when volunteers with the island's Sea Turtle Protection Project arrived.
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Toronto Sun 2014-07-09 11:48:00
Next time you venture out to record an intense storm, you may want to keep an eye out for lightning. Chad Greenless, a resident of Arvade, Colorado was standing on his front porch with a camera in hand, ready to record an intense summer storm Monday night. It was in the middle of filming that the unexpected happened: Greenless was struck by the very lightning he had set out to record. It's not the first time an attempt to use technology has resulted in a lightning strike, either. Just last week, a Peterborogh man was struck by lightning when he tried to live tweet a storm. Eyewitness News reported that Greenless was paralyzed at the moment of contact, but is now slowly recovering at home.
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KHOU.com 2014-07-09 13:01:00
A bathroom break for one worker at an Alabama construction office ended with an unexpected scare when he discovered a four-foot long, venomous snake coiled in a toilet. Willie Harris says he couldn't believe his eyes. "So when I was going to use the restroom, I see a snake around the commode and I'm thinking it was a joke." But once Harris saw the snake move a few times, he knew this was no laughing matter. | |
Comment: Reports of snakes being found in toilets have been an alarmingly regular occurrence lately! Woman bitten by snake while on toilet in Naron, Spain Man finds snake in Starbucks bathroom Python living down the toilet Mystery behind the 3ft snake found in an Exeter, UK toilet Snake takes over couple's toilet in Brisbane, Australia Man finds 2ft snake in bathroom of Bideford,UK property | |
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David Highfield CBS Pittsburgh 2014-07-11 11:29:00
The deer that attacked a woman in Westmoreland County has tested positive for rabies, according the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Rachel McGough is the manager at the Sherwin Williams paint store in East Huntingdon Township. She noticed the doe Tuesday morning as she was about to open the store. "There was a deer standing outside the liquor store," Said McGough. "Thought that was pretty funny, so I took a picture of it. And it started to charge me!" She didn't know what to think as the doe began pushing her. "Oh my God! This deer is going to kill me," she said. McGough says the stuff she was carrying actually helped a little. "I had a couple of bags with me that I shoved at it trying to get away. One of the bags got looped around its neck, which allowed me to get a couple feet away," said McGough. Turns out, two guys up at the McDonald's had been watching the deer cross the parking lot and then come over to McGough. They became Good Samaritans when they came running down and tackled the deer. | |
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Damian Carrington The Guardian 2014-07-09 08:13:00
Research demonstrates for the first time the knock-on effects to other species of class of insecticides known to harm bees New research has identified the world's most widely used insecticides as the key factor in the recent reduction in numbers of farmland birds. The finding represents a significant escalation of the known dangers of the insecticides and follows an assessment in June that warned that pervasive pollution by these nerve agents was now threatening all food production. The neonicotinoid insecticides are believed to seriously harm bees and other pollinating insects, and a two-year EU suspension on three of the poisons began at the end of 2013. But the suspected knock-on effects on other species had not been demonstrated until now. Peer-reviewed research, published in the leading journal Nature this Wednesday, has revealed data from the Netherlands showing that bird populations fell most sharply in those areas where neonicotinoid pollution was highest. Starlings, tree sparrows and swallows were among the most affected.
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The Guardian 2014-07-11 07:31:00
Official figures suggest this year will be deadliest yet for rhino, breaking 2013 record of 1,004 deaths Some 558 rhino have been killed in South Africa already this year, setting the country on course for a gruesome new record number of poaching deaths, wildlife officials said on Thursday. Despite stepped-up efforts to curb the scourge, the number of animals killed is around 100 higher than at the same point in 2013, a year which saw a record 1,004 deaths. The vast, tourist-filled Kruger National Park has been hardest hit. "Since January 2014, 351 rhinos have been poached in the park," the department of environmental affairs said.
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James Samenow Washingtonpost.com 2014-07-10 10:35:00
Call it the ghost of the polar vortex, the polar vortex sequel, or the polar vortex's revenge. Meteorological purists may tell you it's not a polar vortex at all. However you choose to refer to the looming weather pattern, unseasonably chilly air is headed for parts of the northern and northeastern U.S at the height of summer early next week. Bearing a haunting resemblance to January's brutally cold weather pattern, a deep pool of cool air from the Gulf of Alaska will plunge into the Great Lakes early next week and then ooze towards the East Coast. Of course, this is July, not January, so temperatures forecast to be roughly 10 to as much as 30 degrees below average won't have quite the same effect. But make no mistake, in parts of the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest getting dealt the chilliest air, hoodies and jeans will be required. Highs in this region could well get stuck in the 50s and 60s - especially where there is considerable cloud cover. Wednesday morning's lows may drop into the 40s over a large part of the central U.S. Remember, this is July!
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Bozeman Daily Chronicle 2014-07-10 11:51:00
The ever-changing thermal geology of Yellowstone National Park has created a hot spot that melted an asphalt road and closed access to popular geysers and other attractions at the height of tourist season, officials said Thursday. As they examined possible fixes, park officials warned visitors not to hike into the affected area, where the danger of stepping through solid-looking soil into boiling-hot water was high. "There are plenty of other great places to see thermal features in the park," Yellowstone spokesman Al Nash said. "I wouldn't risk personal injury to see these during this temporary closure." Naturally changing thermal features often damage Yellowstone's roads and boardwalks. Steaming potholes in asphalt roads and parking lots - marked off by traffic cones - are fairly common curiosities. However, the damage to Firehole Lake Drive is unusually severe and could take several days to fix. The 3.3-mile loop six miles north of Old Faithful takes visitors past Great Fountain Geyser, White Dome Geyser and Firehole Lake. Unusually warm weather for Yellowstone - with high temperatures in the mid-80s - has contributed to turning the road into a hot, sticky mess. "We've got some ideas. We're going to try them. Our maintenance staff has really looked at the issue," Nash said. | |
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| Health & Wellness |
Stephanie Nebehay Reuters.com 2014-07-11 04:26:00
Ebola continues to spread in Sierra Leone, Liberia and to a lesser extent in Guinea, with a combined 44 new cases and 21 deaths between July 6-8, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. This brought the total in West Africa's first outbreak of the deadly viral disease to 888 cases including 539 deaths since February, the United Nations agency said. "The epidemic trend in Liberia and Sierra Leone remains precarious with high numbers of new cases and deaths being reported," the WHO said. Just one confirmed new case had been reported during the past week in Guinea, where the WHO said it was closely monitoring the situation. There has been resistance among some communities to measures recommended to control the outbreak, such as precautions during traditional burial ceremonies. | |
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Karen Foster Prevent Disease.com 2014-07-11 14:27:00
Scientists have known for a long time why higher consumption of wine has led to lower rates of heart disease and cancer. It has nothing do with the alcohol and everything to do with the grapes. However, that's not how the alcohol industry has portrayed the health benefits of wine. New research that reviewed evidence from more than 50 studies that linked drinking habits and cardiovascular health, calls into question previous studies suggesting one drink per day to be healthy for the heart. The alcohol industry and the media have portrayed one glass, even two glasses, of wine or beer as not only safe, but possibly healthy. They tell the public that there is only danger when the use of alcohol is excessive or abusive. Alcohol, regardless of its type (i.e. beer, wine, liquor, etc) is a class A1 carcinogen which are confirmed human carcinogens. Alcohol consumption has been causally related with breast cancer for some time. Increasing evidence indicates a stronger association with neoplasms, though the risk is elevated for other types of breast cancers too. In a previous study posted in the journal Neuroscience, lead author Megan Anderson, reported that even moderate drinking -- drinking less during the week and more on the weekends -- significantly reduces the structural integrity of the adult brain. Reducing the amount of alcoholic beverages consumed, even for light-to-moderate drinkers, may improve cardiovascular health, including a reduced risk of coronary heart disease, lower body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure, according to a new multi-center study published in The BMJ and co-led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The latest findings call into question previous studies which suggest that consuming light-to-moderate amounts of alcohol (0.6-0.8 fluid ounces/day) may have a protective effect on cardiovascular health. | |
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Nora Gedgaudas Primal Body Primal Mind 2014-07-10 00:00:00
Adrenal-related issues are seemingly epidemic today - many people complain of some degree of "adrenal fatigue" or "burnout." This is hardly surprising given the incredibly stressful world we live in today. The unfortunate truth is adrenal-related issues are poorly understood today. Also, most health care providers still practice using outdated theoretical models from the 1950s, which fail to hold up in the face of modern stress physiology. In fact, the vast majority of so-called "adrenal issues" have nothing whatsoever to do with the adrenal glands themselves! | |
Comment: There really is no other way about proper management of your bodys energy, than to get keto adapted by maintaining a proper diet, as well as processing emotions, rethinking the early on constructed ways of coping with stress. As Nora mentions: thinking about regulating your circadian rhythm and its 'light hormones' by being careful of the right kinds of light exposure and sleeping patterns, will help balance energy as well. | |
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| Science of the Spirit |
Jillian Rose Live Science 2014-07-11 12:54:00
People with so-called "sex addictions" may have patterns of brain activity similar to those of people with drug addictions, a new study finds. When people in the study who reported compulsive sexual behavior watched pornography, they experienced heightened brain activity in the same regions where activity is heightened during drug use in people with drug addiction. The study provides evidence in the fierce debate over whether compulsive sexual behavior - also known as hypersexuality - should be considered a true mental-health disorder, and be included in the DSM-5, the American Psychological Association's handbook of mental-health disorders. "There's a large literature that developed over the past three or four decades of how individuals respond to drug abuse, and we wanted to examine within that framework whether we see similarities and differences [to compulsive sexual behavior]," said Dr. Marc Potenza, a psychiatrist at the Yale School of Medicine who co-authored the new study. Although people with sexual compulsive behavior have shown behaviors similar to those of people with drug addiction, the researchers hoped to find similarities in brain activity as well. Potenza and his colleagues at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom showed sexually explicit content, such as pornographic videos, to two groups of people - one group of people who reported compulsive sexual behavior and another group who didn't have such compulsions - and took magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images of their brain activity. The goal was to see how their brains responded to sexual and nonsexual cues, Potenza said. | |
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| High Strangeness |
UFOevidence.org 2014-07-11 16:34:00
UFO Case Report Date: July 18, 1969 Location: Buzz Aldrin: "There was something out there that, uh, was close enough to be observed and what could it be? Mike (Collins) decided he thought he could see it in the telescope and he was able to do that and when it was in one position, that had a series of ellipses, but when you made it real sharp it was sort of L shaped. That didn't tell us very much." Classification & Features Type of Case/Report: StandardCase Hynek Classification: # of Witnesses: Multiple Special Features/Characteristics: Astronaut/Space, Famous Person, Witness Photo Full Report / Article A few days ago on the Science Channel, a program called "First on the Moon: The Untold Story" was aired. About 14:30 min/sec into the program, there was a 3.5 minute segment that described a UFO encounter that Apollo 11 experienced during its flight to the moon. | |
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| Don't Panic! Lighten Up! |
Ella Alexander The Independent, UK 2014-07-11 15:52:00
Steven Spielberg has been trolled by numerous Facebook users after a photo was shared of the director with a mechanical Triceratops on the set of 1993 film Jurassic Park. The image was posted on the Facebook page of Jay Branscomb as a joke, alongside the caption: "Disgraceful photo of recreational hunter happily posing next to a Triceratops he just slaughtered. Please share so the world can name and shame this despicable man." Incredibly, a fair few members of the public didn't grasp that the picture was taken from theJurassic Park set, believing that Spielberg had actually poached a dinosaur; dinosaurs, a breed of animals that became extinct 66 million years ago. The image has been shared over 33,000 times attracting thousands of comments, initially from misinformed users (apparently unaware that dinosaurs are no longer) and also those lamenting their stupidity. | |
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Oliver Darcy The Blaze 2014-07-10 19:17:00
It's probably not an announcement passengers aboard one Frontier Airlines flight expected. After an already delayed Denver-bound plane was forced to temporarily land at a Wyoming airport until severe weather cleared up, passengers were left stranded on the tarmac for about an hour. The 160 individuals aboard the Monday night flight were growing hungry and tired - and the pilot knew it. That's when he made a surprise announcement over the loudspeaker. "He said 'Ladies and gentleman, Frontier Airlines is known for being one of the cheapest airlines in the US, but your captain is not cheap,'" passenger Logan Marie Torres, who is also Miss Colorado U.S. Teen 2014, told KDVR-TV. "'I just ordered pizza for the entire plane.'" Cheyenne Domino's Pizza manager Andrew Ritchie told The Associated Press he got a call at about 10 p.m. Monday just as he was about to send employees home. He says the pilot told him he needed to feed 160 people - fast. "I need to feed my whole plane," the caller told him, according to WESH-TV. "Lucky me, I hear 160 people." |
